Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.

Carmen Dolfo

We were 100 percent convinced she could step in. She has really developed her range. She's not that big, but she's strong, and she can play inside and out.

Bill Richardson

When I saw that program in 1967, I was convinced I was drafted, ... And it stayed with me all these years.

Dan Rather

I am convinced we can do so again. That must be our focus and priority.

Tang Jiaxuan

I am convinced that this meeting will succeed,

Bob Horn

In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

It has taken two or three weeks to convince our counterparts -- the United States and (other) NATO countries -- that while withdrawing the (Yugoslav) troops, it's necessary to leave some of them behind.

Padraig Harrington

I know I've been inconsistent this year. Obviously, there's many reasons for that. But if I finish strong the next couple of months, it will be easy for me in my own mind to convince myself that it was a good year.

Dave Pano

I had to convince kids that this was a good place to come to. There is no reason you can't have a good program here. We have good academics, we have good facilities and we play in Clearwater, Florida. I mean, come on.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Rivers Cuomo

I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer.

Dean Winters

I've done a few jobs out there for the money, and I find those jobs have come back to haunt me.

Retief Goosen

I've been putting very well all week, seeing the greens very well. I started playing better in the last few events. It was nice to have a good week.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Bernie Sanders

I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

Bernie Sanders

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Jack Straw

are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.

Joseph Biden

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

Leon Panetta

The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.

Leon Panetta

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests,

Paul Wolfowitz

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

Marty Meehan

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

Marty Meehan

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

Pope Francis

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

Pope Benedict XVI

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

Mason Cooley

A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

Tim Beck

This doesn't take away from us winning the region title.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Charles Harris

I would not have got to make my first film and I would not have been able to set up my second film.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Steve Adelsperger

We didn't rebound, we didn't do anything we talked about. They rebounded, they got second shots, and they made them.

Rose George

I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.

Nedim Pajevic

We had too many turnovers in the second half, and that's what killed us.

Mark Buehrle

Without him in the second half, I don't know if we'd be here today.

Keenan McCardell

First (game), second (game), it doesn't matter. They all hurt.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Frank Robinson

One thing he has to start doing, he has to start being productive. He has to, because you can't keep going 0-for-3, 0-for-4, 0-for-4, 1-for-4, that type of thing, from the top of the lineup.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Mark Recchi

Hopefully, it's a starting point. That's what we have to look for right now. We're getting better.

Jermaine Wiggins

Man, that ain't even a thought for me, ... I can't get into that world. I've been around too long to start something like that up.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Sergei Brylin

That's the way you want to start on the road.